New Titles Purchased by Rotary Grant

Thanks to the generosity of the Rotary Club of Osterville and Rotary International the Cotuit Library has purchased new materials to aid job seekers. Resume guides, the GED manual, Federal and non profit career guides are some of our new resources. Please come in and check them out!  See new arrivals for a partial list of these books.

Librarian’s Library: The first First Library
Mary Ellen Quinn writes: “The next time you find yourself in Canton, Ohio, make a stop at the National First Ladies’ Library, home of the Abigail Fillmore Library Room. This room replicates the first permanent White House library, established by Millard and Abigail Fillmore in 1850. In 2004, the National First Ladies’ Library began working with the Library of Congress and the Bibliographic Society of America to reconstruct the original Fillmore collection.”...
American Libraries column, Sept.

The Old Guys visit a library
The Old Guys is a BBC comedy television series revolving around two aging housemates, Tom Finnan (left, Roger Lloyd-Pack) and Roy Bowden (Clive Swift). In “The Quiz” episode, which aired July 9, Tom and Roy are determined to win a pub quiz to prove that their minds are still agile. They visit a library (2:40) where Tom tries to impress Barbara the librarian (Cherie Lunghi) with his knowledge of literature....
YouTube, July 9

Celebrities continue the tradition of READ posters
Whitney Matheson writes: “Remember those READ posters your school library had in the 1980s and 1990s? I totally remember the one with David Bowie (right). Well, ALA has released a new series of READ images, and they feature several contemporary celebrities (sorry, Kirk Cameron). Here’s an interesting list of all the celebrities who have posed for READ posters over the years. And you can also make your own poster. Nice.”...
USA Today: Pop Candy, Aug. 4

NYPL announces 2010 Library Lions
The New York Public Library’s 2010 Library Lions gala honors five remarkable individuals for their contributions to the world of ideas at a black-tie gala on November 1. This year, the library tips its hat to author Malcolm Gladwell; actor, screenwriter, and novelist Ethan Hawke; New York Public Library President Paul LeClerc; actor and writer Steve Martin; and novelist Zadie Smith....
New York Public Library, Aug. 4

Muscovy duck adopts Wilmington library
A Muscovy duck nicknamed George stationed himself in front of the door at the Northeast Regional branch of the New Hanover County (N.C.) Public Library door this spring, looking like a grumpy bouncer with red-rimmed eyes. His presence disturbed and upset some people concerned about health hazards, but he delighted children who had never seen a bird like him before. Now he has his own Friends group and has taken up residence at the nearby pond....
Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News, Aug. 4

When H. L. Mencken stood up to the censors
Tufts University Journalism Professor Neil Miller’s new book Banned in Boston is a history of Boston’s New England Watch and Ward Society, which acted as a quasi-vigilante police force and literary censor for over 80 years. In this excerpt, American Mercury Editor H. L. Mencken faces off with the society’s Rev. J. Frank Chase, who had ordered the banning of the April 1926 issue because it contained a short story about prostitution and hypocrisy in a small Missouri town....
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Aug. 8

Toronto to try out train-station library kiosk
The Toronto Public Library is studying the idea of installing an automated kiosk at Union Station, where patrons could borrow a book with a swipe of their library cards at any time of day. Similar kiosks are in use in Ottawa, Contra Costa County in California (right), and Europe. Library officials hope installing kiosks throughout the city will bring expanded services without the huge capital costs associated with building a branch....
Toronto Star, Aug. 9

Allen Lane’s Penguincubator, 1937
Chris Higgins writes: “Sir Allen Lane is the creator of Penguin Books, which is credited with popularizing high-quality mass-market paperbacks. But he didn’t stop there. He also invented the Penguincubator, a vending machine for his paperbacks, in 1937.” It was first installed at 66 Charing Cross Road in London, which “signaled his intention to take the book beyond the library and the traditional bookstore, into railway stations, chain stores, and onto the streets,” according to James Bridle. It is worth noting that this really annoyed booksellers....
Mental Floss, Aug. 9; Publishing Perspectives, Apr. 28

Pope Benedict wanted to be a librarian
Pope Benedict XVI wanted to become a librarian in 1997, but his request to quit a high office in the Vatican was rejected. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, declined Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s request to spend his last years as the archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and as librarian of the Vatican Library, according to the incumbent librarian and archivist Cardinal Raffaele Farina....
The Telegraph (U.K.), Aug. 5

Rare naval document given to National Library of Ireland
An extremely rare 17th-century shipping document signed by King James II and English diarist Samuel Pepys was presented to the National Library of Ireland on August 5 by the Dublin Port Company. The ship’s pass dating from 1687 is one of only four known examples of such 17th-century passes in the world. The vellum parchment was intended to provide safe passage for the merchant ship Mary of Cork, which was bound for the Canary Islands....
Irish Times, Aug. 6

Amish romances pick up the pace
It’s plain and simple: The Amish inspirational is one of the fastest-growing genres in romance publishing. In such popular series as Beverly Lewis’s Seasons of Grace, Wanda Brunstetter’s Indiana Cousins, and Cindy Woodsmall’s Sisters of the Quilt, the Amish fall in love while grappling with religious taboos and forbidden temptations. And it all happens in über-quaint settings brimming with hand-sewn quilts, horse-drawn buggies, and made-from-scratch Pennsylvania Dutch specialties such as shoofly pie....
USA Today, Aug. 9

Dual-screen e-book reader: Kinda like a book
While the Kindle has largely failed with students as a replacement for printed textbooks, some colleges plan to test new e-reader devices whose promoters argue that two screens are better than one. One of the new e-readers is called Kno, which was announced in June and will be given to about 100 students at three colleges. The Kno sports two 14-inch screens, allowing users to read on one screen while writing notes on the other....
Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, Aug. 9

NPR’s top 100 killer thrillers
Joe Matazzoni writes: “The NPR audience nominated some 600 novels to our Killer Thrillers poll and cast more than 17,000 ballots. The final roster of winners is a diverse one to say the least, ranging in style and period from Dracula to The Da Vinci Code, and Presumed Innocent to Pet Sematary. What these top 100 titles share, however, is that all of them are fast-moving tales of suspense and adventure. And menace.”...
NPR, Aug. 4

Project Gutenberg titles available on OverDrive
On August 6, Boston Public Library became the first OverDrive library partner to add more than 15,000 public domain e-books from Project Gutenberg to its Virtual Branch website—at no cost to the library. This featured collection, currently in beta, enables users to discover and download thousands of DRM-free EPUB e-books without holds, waitlists, or authentication....
Digital Library Blog, Aug. 10

A smattering of frontispieces
L. D. Mitchell writes: “Folks who collect something other than hypermodern fiction frequently encounter the term ‘frontispiece’ in booksellers’ catalogs. Often abbreviated in catalogs as frontis, the frontispiece is infrequently encountered in modern books. This is unfortunate, since the frontispiece often is the one place in a book where a particular illustrative technique (mezzotint, wood engraving, chromolithography), can be seen to best effect.”...
The Private Library, Aug. 5